Buffed, Reblued, Boosted - Need Advice

unspellable · 08-07-2002, 02:30 PM

Thor,

All true, but how do you lose the original blueing and still have an otherwise new looking piece? And even for salt bluing, you still have to remove the old finish and polish the pieces. Still seems like a lot of work for a gun that looks new to begin with. If it didn't look new, it would require the kind of work you are doing to make it look new. There's not enough money involved in the price of an otherwise run of the mill M1920 to provide an incentive for boosting. (And this is not a crude blueing job we are talking about here.)

I have one with a history such that I have to believe the last time (Be it first or second time.) it was finished was prior to WWII. It appears to be almost literally unfired. A restoration job like that would cost more than it is worth, and that's in addition to the cost of the rough gun.

I have another with no history. On this second one, the usually strawed parts are blued. But again, how did it get to be so crispy looking? besides looking so crispy on the outside this one has a rather poor bore due to someone putting it away with corrosive priming gunk in the barrel. Why refinish and not clean up the barrel?

Was there a period between the two wars when the economics and incentives of refinishing were different than they are today?

Maybe we need a "History of Luger Refinishing, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"

08-07-2002, 02:30 PM	#11
unspellable User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Iowa Posts: 768 Thanks: 0 Thanked 19 Times in 11 Posts	Thor, All true, but how do you lose the original blueing and still have an otherwise new looking piece? And even for salt bluing, you still have to remove the old finish and polish the pieces. Still seems like a lot of work for a gun that looks new to begin with. If it didn't look new, it would require the kind of work you are doing to make it look new. There's not enough money involved in the price of an otherwise run of the mill M1920 to provide an incentive for boosting. (And this is not a crude blueing job we are talking about here.) I have one with a history such that I have to believe the last time (Be it first or second time.) it was finished was prior to WWII. It appears to be almost literally unfired. A restoration job like that would cost more than it is worth, and that's in addition to the cost of the rough gun. I have another with no history. On this second one, the usually strawed parts are blued. But again, how did it get to be so crispy looking? besides looking so crispy on the outside this one has a rather poor bore due to someone putting it away with corrosive priming gunk in the barrel. Why refinish and not clean up the barrel? Was there a period between the two wars when the economics and incentives of refinishing were different than they are today? Maybe we need a "History of Luger Refinishing, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"